Shortages of key medications used to treat common childhood illnesses like flu, ear infections and sore throats are adding to the misery of this year’s early and severe respiratory virus season.

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Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, along with antibiotics, antiviral medications, and vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, a new systematic review suggests.

Antibiotics, antivirals, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication are associated with reduced risk of dementia, ...

One of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century was the discovery of antibiotics - drugs that act to cure a broad variety of bacterial infections. However, antibiotics are only useful against ...

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Antiviral drugs are different from antibiotics, which fight against bacterial infections.There are three FDA-approved influenza antiviral drugs -- Tamiflu, Relenza and Rapivab. What are the ...

Drugs, including antibiotics, antivirals, vaccinations, and anti-inflammatory medications, are linked to a lower risk of dementia, found a new study. The corresponding findings were published in ...

While hundreds of drugs including chemotherapy and anesthetic agents have been in short supply for years, the current shortages of amoxicillin and antiviral drugs are unusual, Dr. Ganio said.

“Antibiotics are used a lot in the tissue culture [and] cell culture we do in labs, and so if the antibiotics are triggering the antiviral defense, the gene regulation, that means that if you want to ...